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is an initiative of women from the South, activists and academics, seeking for
solutions in order to empower women who carry the growing burden of world wide
poverty.
Contact: Devaki Jain
THE
CASABLANCA PROCESS
The Starting Point:
· "The women's
movement in the South made a such a progress with big successes; yet the
poverty of women is still increasing." (Group Consensus)
· "Theory,
institutions, practices, policy need a revision, reconstruction, remodelling in
the context of or in response to the terrible condition of those who are hungry
- who lack the fundamentals." (Devaki Jain)
Entry Points:
· Women's work and
macroeconomics: How to make women's contribution to the economies visible, how
to re-shift the risk from the poor women's shoulders, how to change
macroeconomic decisions in favour for women's well-being and wealth ...
· Women and the
privatisation of basic needs: Worldwide, especially poor women are suffering of
water scarcity. Access to clean water is a human right. Yet, water
privatisation in less developed countries is spreading with disastrous effects
on the life of women. We see it as a crime against humanity.
The
Initiative:
"We
want women to walk out of poverty." With this task Devaki Jain invited a
group of women thinkers to Casablanca in January 2007. The meeting was intended
to see if there could be a consensus on both aspects, first: Is there a crisis?
Is there a cause for concern? and second: Should we react? Can we react? Can we
bring up any new ideas, new frameworks to deal with this situation? How to
build the momentum to implement them? Our meeting was only to crack the egg
shell - not to cook the omelette. And to that extent the two and a half days in
Casablanca did achieve its purpose. The underlying consensus in the group was
that theory, institutions, practices, policy need a revision, reconstruction,
remodelling in the context of or in response to the terrible condition of those
who are hungry - who lack the fundamentals. To further specify the first round
of a follow up or an outline for discussion the group broke up into two:
· Macro-economic ideas
and how to transform them to be more human and enabling of justice
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